Re: [PATCH] x86,mrst: Intel Medfield over-current detection patch

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> Hm. Do you have a summary or a pointer to that discussion? This really 
> does seem to be a hardware monitoring device, and so hwmon would seem 
> the more natural home for it - I'd like some idea of what the 
> justification was.

Basically that it has no interface features in common with anything in
the hwmon API, nor that looked likely to be generic or could be made to
fit them.

hwmon isn't "any hardware monitoring device", it's classes of devices
that fit certain common interfaces - eg thermal reporting ones.

Alan
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